Weekly Seminar Bulletin

May 2 – May 15, 2013

Thursday, May 2
4:00 PM OLIVER CLUB
Leonardo Mihalcea, Virginia Tech
Geometry and combinatorics of quantum cohomology
Refreshments at 3:30 PM in the lounge.
Malott 532
Friday, May 3
2:15 PM DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS SEMINAR
David Aulicino, University of Chicago
Some results on affine manifolds in genus 3 with a zero Lyapunov exponent
Malott 205
3:30 PM CAM COLLOQUIUM
Pradeep Dubey, Stony Brook University
Games of money and status: how best to incentivize work
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in Rhodes 657.
Rhodes 655
3:30 PM LIE GROUPS SEMINAR
Bruce Fontaine, Cornell University
Rotation of tensors and geometric representation theory
Malott 406
Monday, May 6
2:30 PM ANALYSIS SEMINAR
Albert Chau, University of British Columbia
Compact manifolds with non-negative quadratic orthogonal bisectional curvature
Malott 406
4:00 PM COMPUTER SCIENCE THEORY SEMINAR
Hu Fu, Cornell University
Title TBA
Upson 5130
4:00 PM NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Summaries of the Upstate New York Number Theory Conference
Malott 230
4:00 PM PROBABILITY SEMINAR — CANCELED
Todd Kemp, University of California at San Diego
Brownian rotation, and an infinite dimensional general position theorem
 
5:00 PM OLIVETTI CLUB
Scott Messick, Cornell University
The independence of the continuum hypothesis
Refreshments at 4:30 PM in the lounge.
Malott 406
Tuesday, May 7
2:55 PM

LOGIC SEMINAR — CANCELED
Mia Minnes, University of California at San Diego
Algorithmic randomness via random algorithms

 
4:00 PM MATH LIBRARY COFFEE HOUR
Daina Taimina, Cornell University
Book talk: Crocheting adventures with hyperbolic planes
Malott 532
Wednesday, May 8
4:15 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Debashis Paul, University of California at Davis
Limiting spectral distribution of sample covariance and autocovariance matrices for a class of large dimensional time series
Biotech G01
Wednesday, May 15
4:15 PM STATISTICS SEMINAR
Eric Bax, Yahoo, Inc.
Validation of k-NN classifiers and pricing information
Biotech G01